African-American Studies Databases
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Alternative Press Index
Includes more than 450 alternative, radical, and left magazines, newsletters, and journals in North America which report and analyze issues of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Approximately 90% of publications included are not indexed elsewhere. Indexes editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews.
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Black Studies Center (BSC)
Includes three modules: The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience which includes interdisciplinary essays on the Black Experience; International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), a database covering some 150 scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, many of them in full text; and the full text backfile of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender (1910-1975).
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Ethnic News Watch
Indexes over 200 ethnic, minority, and native press publications.
The Sixties: Primary Documents Online
The Library has a subscription to a database of primary sources from the 1960s: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives. This database documents the key events, trends, and movements in 
1960s America (1960-1974), including 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, as well as rare audio and video materials.
This database is restricted to the UC Berkeley community; don't forget to set up off-campus access if you're accessing it from off-campus.
Literary Criticism and Resources
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MLA International Bibliography
Scholarly articles on literary topics. Use UC-eLinks button to get to the articles themselves.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Scope is international. Full text.
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Project MUSE
Several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.
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JSTOR
Easy to use, full text, multi-disciplinary scholarly article database. Note: the most recent 3-5 years of the journals are usually not available through JSTOR.
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Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database that includes both scholarly and popular articles. Most articles have pdfs.
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Literature Online
Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 131 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Includes reference works on literary criticism and biographical information.
Where's the PDF?
Many article databases contain information about articles (citations or abstracts), not the entire text of the article. Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button:
in order to locate and read the full text of the article. The UC-eLinks button appears in nearly all the databases available from the UCB Library website.
UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.
For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)
You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar. For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 2 min.)